We need a Miniplayer for Video

we're going for a similar behavior as in facebook and twitter where you're able to slide the views/ the player out to the right which will dismiss the view and in our case playback

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I'll take this one! I love these interactions :)

Awesome! Go for it. We moved that for now to 3.3 because it's not a must have and has a lot of edgecases. For 3.2 We would be happy if the the current miniplayer would be updated to work with light and darktheme and correctly position itself when you rotate the phone.

When you start with the Video miniplayer There are cases that need to be thought of. For example: You play an Audio file in miniplayer mode and then select a Video. When you open a stream we won't know immediatly if it's Audio or Video and we should also think of displaying the buffering state. But that can be done step by step and probably with smaller follow up tickets :)

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If this refers to the introduction of Picture In Picture since iOS 14, then I will be happy to support the proposal here.

No, this is about the minimized player already known from the current iOS app. PiP will be done, but it hard with VLC and not part of the v3 release series.

The actual mini player is very small hence I think a larger one for video could be implemented.

Maybe something like the one we can find in other players, where :

• its width is around half the width of the screen
• you can move it in any of the 4 safe area corners of the device
• dismiss it with a swipe gesture toward the device edges

Any work already started on it so far ?

I started refactoring some part needed for integrate this into our code base but there are some behaviours we might need to decide before going forward.

For example, how do we want to handle playlists that contains audio and video files ?

Should the mini player switch automatically from audio/video ?

The view may transition to a mini audio player yes.
Could be the same player with audio file cover (or cone icon if unavailable)

assigned to @umxprime

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This should probably be done with the PiP in v4.

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